WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.799 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.039 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.800 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:35.560 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host Tod Huff. You 5 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.840 know, my friends, the longer and more frequently I hear that conservative not 6 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:46.079 bitter, the more I realize just how lucky you are and just how rare 7 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:51.000 that is, my friends, in today's world of angry, bitter, divisiveness, 8 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.799 and rage. It is definitely there's no alternative to this on the left. 9 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.759 As we've seen play out here in the past day or so. Since 10 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:08.840 the House of Representatives has now formally elected Speaker Mike Johnson, representative from the 11 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:15.920 great state of Louisiana, they now have a speaker, that problem is over. 12 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.879 Of course, it's not over, because now it's going to be a 13 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:25.159 battle to define who he is. They're going to, of course demonize. 14 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.079 They've already done this. This is predictable stuff, and I want to explain 15 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.840 why. I want to give some background as to what is really going on 16 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:37.239 here, what is really at stake, and I want to go through this. 17 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.000 It's an important thing. And by the way, I think it's a 18 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.879 victory. It's a victory for the conservative element in this country, those who 19 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.599 love this country, and it's founding those who believe in the principles of the 20 00:01:52.599 --> 00:02:00.280 Declaration of Independence, those who believe in the Constitution, the separation of powers, 21 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.480 a return to limited government. We got a lot of work cut out 22 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.400 for us, but it's a very good first step in the process. By 23 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.960 the way, if you want to be part of this discussion, I welcome 24 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.599 you to do that. You can email me Todd at Todd hubshow dot com. 25 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:20.080 You can text three to one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty. 26 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.360 Yes, message in data rates may apply, not apply, not from us, 27 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.159 of course, from your potentially from your carrier. So anyway, let's 28 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:36.080 get into what's going on here. The House has finally elected speaker, a 29 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:43.919 Speaker of the House, Representative Mike Johnson from the state of Louisiana. As 30 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.960 you know, as we've as you've heard reported, and as we mentioned a 31 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.439 moment ago, and I would begin by saying, it turns out that Matt 32 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:58.960 Gates was right. That's the first thing I think we need to stop and 33 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:06.479 do is to to applaud the work of Matt Gates. Now this is I've 34 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.919 used this analogy before. I think though that it is an apt analogy. 35 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.080 I think it applies, I think it's relevant. I think it actually sets 36 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:23.800 the stage for what is about to ensue, what is about to transpire here 37 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.919 in the Congress of the United States of America in Washington, d C. 38 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:35.360 Matt Gates was right to call out the poor leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 39 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:43.199 Matt Gates was right to stand in opposition to attacks from fellow Republicans. I 40 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:50.879 would even say demonizing attacks in some ways from fellow Republicans, from the media, 41 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:57.680 from some of the American public. But Matt Gates was right. The 42 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.800 former leadership of the Speaker of the House was not going to get it done. 43 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.800 As I've said before and as I'll say again, in order to fix 44 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:13.240 America's problems, we have to look at this as a multi step process. 45 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.839 We can't think we're gonna flip a switch. We cannot think. We cannot 46 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.959 and should not think in any way, shape, manner, or form that 47 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:29.720 a Republican victory in any election year, or a Trump victory in twenty twenty 48 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:35.240 four is going to single handedly fix this problem. To the extent that that 49 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:41.600 is in the minds of the American people, to the extent that that is 50 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.160 how some people look at this, we have to completely throw that out of 51 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:55.439 our thinking. That is antiquated thinking, that is not truly recognizing the realities 52 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:59.839 of what we're dealing with today. This, my friends, is a battle, 53 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.680 like it or not. We got to strap up our big boy and 54 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:08.560 big girl pants, or I should say, or big boy or big girl 55 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:14.079 pants. You can choose, but you gotta strap them on and get ready 56 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.800 because this battle is never This battle is never going to end. This battle 57 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:26.000 now, the specific battle over the Speaker of the House, or what's the 58 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.120 next issue on the docket in the House of Representatives, or how we campaign 59 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.120 about this or that or whatever, that is all of course going to change 60 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:40.160 over time. But the fundamental truth that we have to wrap our heads around, 61 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:44.480 take a deep breath, stare in the eye, and accept the responsibility. 62 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.920 There is no turning away from this responsibility, my friends. This is 63 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:57.040 a necessary responsibility. As I've said before, As you've heard Reagan's quote from 64 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:02.639 back in the nineteen eighties when he was President. Then he pointed out He 65 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:10.800 pointed out that liberty is not something that we pass along to the next generation 66 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:18.439 in our bloodstream. It doesn't go from generation to generation by virtue of human 67 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:26.120 DNA. This is something we must agree is important. We must accept the 68 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.920 responsibility in defending it and proclaiming it and explaining it, and pass that along 69 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:40.360 to the next generation. The next generation must accept the responsibility at hand and 70 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.720 say, you know what, we are going to continue this fight in defense 71 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:51.439 of liberty, in defense of this great nation, in hopes of creating a 72 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:58.000 more perfect union. We are going to continue to carry that mantle and this 73 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:02.839 will go on indefinitely. When it stops going on is when we have problems. 74 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.600 And I would say that that's part of what we've got going on here 75 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:12.519 today. Somewhere along the way, Americans metaphorically and quite literally in some ways 76 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:16.959 have gotten fat and lazy. We've collectively gotten fat and lazy. We don't 77 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:25.279 understand what the alternative, the true antithesis of what America is. We don't 78 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:29.319 live that. We can see it, but sometimes there's a disconnect in what 79 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.279 that really is like day in and day out. We can see it in 80 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:36.360 places around the world, like the in the Islamic Republic of Iran, for 81 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.240 example, we can see it. We can see it in the People's Republic 82 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:45.959 of North Korea. We can see these things. We can witness them on 83 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.160 television. We can read stories or watch videos online. But that's something altogether 84 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:57.759 different to experience it. These are dark places. It's communists Russia. The 85 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:03.959 communist Soviet Union was absolutely antithetical to what we have here in this nation, 86 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.439 and so we must defend this. We must pass this on, we must 87 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:15.399 we must accept this responsibility with a little bit of eagerness. It's our moment, 88 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:20.800 it's our time. We have to ensure that it goes on to the 89 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:26.560 next generation. And the first step in that process is getting the right people 90 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.639 on the metaphorical ship. It's fielding the right team. It's getting the right 91 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:37.120 people in the right positions. If you run a business, you know what 92 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.320 I'm talking about. If you are in leadership at a church, you know 93 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:48.360 what I'm talking about. You need people who see and believe in the mission, 94 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.120 the cause, and so forth. You need to make sure that they 95 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:58.159 are equipped, that they are motivated, that they have a clear perspective, 96 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.440 a clear understanding on what the objectives are, what the what the hurdles are, 97 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.919 the barriers are, the challenges are, and you've got to get them 98 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:15.039 in positions of leadership and let them get to work right. That's I mean. 99 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:20.080 Even in a family, a well run family, people have their responsibilities, 100 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.440 they buckle up and get it done. Now, I know that that's 101 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.879 a little bit different, especially if you've got little ones, But the bottom 102 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.600 line is, the bottom line is we have to first in order to move 103 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:37.159 things in the right direction, get people in positions of power, in positions 104 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:45.200 of leadership that are willing to set the coordinates, set the gps to the 105 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:50.399 correct place that we're trying to go. And so again, I don't want 106 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:56.679 to I'm cautiously optimistic because there have been countless people who have looked the part 107 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.679 in the past. They have checked a lot lot of boxes as far as 108 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:07.399 what they say, they believe what they say is important to them. And 109 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:15.720 Representative Mike Johnson checks a lot more boxes in that regard on that checklist than 110 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.679 Kevin McCarthy ever possibly could. And it's not meant to be an attack on 111 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.519 Kevin McCarthy. I'm just trying to communicate the difference. The difference between one 112 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:33.000 type of leader who has one type of worldview, who is willing to capitulate 113 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:39.320 on any number of issues, versus someone who seems to have who seems to 114 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.879 have the goods on being a principled conservative. By the way, I didn't 115 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:52.919 know this. I didn't know too much about Mike Johnson before he was nominated 116 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:58.639 here and now elected as Speaker of the House. But Mike Johnson, and 117 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.679 maybe i'm a little but he was a talk show host at one point in 118 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:09.360 time. But then again, I'm reminded of some others that had talk shows 119 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.879 as well that have disappointed politically here in this state. Mike Pence had a 120 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.120 political talk show back years ago. Anyway, So he was a talk show 121 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:28.320 host. He's been he's had some roles with organizations that I respect, and 122 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.039 of course he's being maligned and attacked, and this is to be expected. 123 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.399 In fact, he's being called a anti gay representative, who's trying to who 124 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:43.159 has tried to overthrow, overthrow the twenty twenty election, and the results those 125 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.360 perfect results. Of course, that there can be no question about you raise 126 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.159 a question. You are the equivalent of an insurrectionist. You are trying to 127 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.559 overthrow our government and elect Trump to be a tyrannical dictator and king for life. 128 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.279 That's the crazy narrative that, of course, when I say it, 129 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:07.919 seems utterly laughable and ridiculous, but that is the narrative that a healthy part 130 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:11.159 of this country has believed because they have been led astray by the deceivers, 131 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:18.440 the professional deceivers in the mainstream media. So we've got a lot of things 132 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.240 to deal with here. I want to paint the picture of what is going 133 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.799 on, and first and foremost, the first step in ensuring that we head 134 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.240 in the right direction is making sure that we have the right people in the 135 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:41.519 right positions. And I'm cautiously optimistic that we have that with Representative Mike Johnson, 136 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.360 now Speaker Mike Johnson, now he has the knives are out for him. 137 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.919 The knives are out for him in the in the swamp, the knives 138 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.279 are out for him in the radical left, in the media, the knives 139 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.840 are out for him even within the Republican Party. Although he won with all 140 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:07.120 two hundred and twenty Republican votes, he won that election for Speaker in the 141 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:13.120 House. But this is a guy who's relatively quiet, who has said he 142 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.519 did not have any ambitions to be Speaker of the House. In fact, 143 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:22.639 he didn't even really consider it, he said, until he was approached about 144 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.919 filling the position. And so we'll see, right, I mean, here's 145 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:35.440 here's someone who again there's a lot of positive signs in my estimation as to 146 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.799 what he will do. But there's a difference between being a member of the 147 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:46.600 House being a relatively quiet member of the House. Although I'm not criticizing, 148 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.559 I mean, he did challenge the electors in the twenty twenty election. I'm 149 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.639 not saying he's not done anything that's controversial. I'm just saying there's a difference 150 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:00.039 to be in being one of four hundred and thirty five members and being the 151 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:05.039 guy right and being the one who's actually running the House of Representatives. And 152 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.039 so not everybody can can rise to the occasion, not everybody can deal with 153 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.639 the pressure. Not everybody can remain principled in that particular position. There's going 154 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:20.320 to be knives coming out for him, both directly from the front and of 155 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:26.200 course from behind as well, and that's where the Republican knives will often come. 156 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.519 But as it now stands, two hundred and twenty votes, all the 157 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:37.159 Republicans voted for Mike Johnson to be speaker. Matt Gates again should be applauded. 158 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.080 That's a critical he played a critical step in this process, a critical 159 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:48.720 role in this process. Matt Gates made sure that we well, he did 160 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.639 the right thing. Here we are, this is again here at the beginning 161 00:14:52.679 --> 00:15:01.000 of this whole process. This is on paper and based upon reason and just 162 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.960 what we know about individuals. This is a much better place than we were 163 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:11.399 three weeks ago when we had Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who didn't do everything wrong. 164 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:15.200 I don't want to paint that picture. But again, to get this 165 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.039 nation to where we need to be, we have to stop doing the things 166 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.960 that we have been doing so that we can actually turn this massive ship this 167 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.080 country around and head back in the right direction. I mean, this is 168 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.679 we're way out of whack as far as the direction that we're going. And 169 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:37.559 Speaker Mike Johnson can I think help do that. We'll see time will tell. 170 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.200 I'm consciously optimistic. So I want to go through this. I want 171 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.799 to paint the picture of the battle that really is being waged here, what's 172 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.480 really going on. I want to lay kind of give a lay of the 173 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:54.559 land. We've won this first step, but that is just what that is. 174 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.639 It's just the first step. So I want to go through this and 175 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:02.200 other things in the news as well, my friends, but a time out 176 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:06.879 is in order. You're listening here to the home of Conservative not bitter Talk. 177 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.279 I am your host, the beloved, the one, the only todd 178 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:26.320 of back here in just a minute, my friends. Welcome back, my 179 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:33.039 friends. So we're here talking about the I guess the fallout if you're a 180 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.039 leftist, if you're a hater of this country or some such thing. I 181 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.759 know, I know not all liberals hate this country, but the radical left 182 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.519 they rapidly hate this country. They hate everything that it stands for. They 183 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:51.639 want to metaphorically and of course literally sometimes they try to burn it down. 184 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.639 But this fallout, if you're on that side of the aisle or just I 185 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:03.279 guess, it comes with the territory part of the consequences of having a successful 186 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.279 step in the House of Representatives. If you see it from the conservative side, 187 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.799 it's just the next part of the process. It's dealing with reality, 188 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:15.160 it's dealing with the opposition that we are going to face, and this is 189 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:22.240 having a speaker of the house. This is merely like winning the coin toss 190 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:27.400 at the beginning of a football game. Now it's import well, the coin 191 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.559 toss in a football game. I mean, oftentimes if you follow football, 192 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:37.079 it says, hey, you get four choices, kick, defend, wait, 193 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.640 kick received, defender, So I can I can choose to kick the 194 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.079 ball to my opponent, giving him the ball first. He of course will 195 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.319 have the chance to decide what he wants to do in the second half. 196 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:56.680 So normally no one picks kick. I think defend is not Receive is sometimes 197 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.480 a common one. You receive you and we want the ball. For Defer 198 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:06.440 means you defer your choice into the second half and you can pick which you 199 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.359 can pick which end zone that you want. That's the other option, And 200 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:15.640 I've seen that one chosen once or twice in extreme weather games, like when 201 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:22.839 the wind's blowing one direction, like forty miles an hour, and some teams 202 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.640 might want to start with the wind to their back or whatever whatever the case 203 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.720 may be. But anyhow, it's like the coin toss is the point. 204 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.680 So now we decide that let's say we receive the ball, You're going to 205 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.920 kick the ball to us. We're going to go on offense. Now, 206 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:42.880 as I've said before, former leaders of the House of Representatives, former leaders 207 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:48.640 in our government, people who have positions of leadership within the government have run 208 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.279 what I like to call the prevent offense, and the prevent offense. For 209 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.799 those of you who are fans of football, it is not a thing. 210 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.400 In football you have a four minute offense, which is designed if you're ahead, 211 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:04.920 to run the clock out. However, there is something called the prevent 212 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:11.039 defense. And I need to explain this. This isn't a football analogy or 213 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:12.960 it's an analogy, it's not a football lesson or anything. Just for the 214 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.880 sake of explaining what's going on. The prevent defense is something that teams will 215 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:23.000 play when they are winning the game, at the very end of the game, 216 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:29.799 when the opposing team usually doesn't have any timeouts. It requires either very 217 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.759 little time or no timeouts. And what you do is you basically say, 218 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.240 look, we're going to give you chunks of yards. You can have these 219 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.559 yards, but we're going to make sure since you can't stop the clock. 220 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.279 There's two ways to stop the clock in the NFL. One is to get 221 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.240 out of bounds. The other is to call a timeout. Well, I 222 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.119 guess a third way is an incomplete pass, but it wouldn't do an offense 223 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.640 any good in those situations that they had to go seventy five yards and twelve 224 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:02.119 seconds to throw in complete passes. And what they do is they defend the 225 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:07.400 sidelines and they defend deep. So they create this defense that looks like you 226 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.759 put players in all the positions you normally don't put them. You're putting them 227 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.680 along the sidelines so as to keep people with the ball from running out of 228 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:19.519 bounds, and you put them deep so they can't get to the end zone, 229 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:26.359 and so they'll give up huge chunks of yards in simply the idea is 230 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:30.559 in thinking you don't have enough time because you can't stop the clock, and 231 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.799 we're not going to give you any way to stop the clock. So that's 232 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.880 a prevent defense. A prevent offense is something that doesn't exist except in politics 233 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:44.759 it does. And so in this analogy, this is when a team the 234 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:51.559 Republican party will take the field. We'll assume control of the ball. They 235 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:53.680 want you to think we got the ball. Now, let's move this baby 236 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.039 down the field. Let's get some first downs, let's try to get some 237 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:03.640 points on the board. However, what they do is focus on making you 238 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:08.920 think that without really ever doing anything to move the football to begin with. 239 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:15.640 So they might come up with a series of football plays that look like a 240 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.480 lot of razzle dazzle. It's a double reverse, a double pass, a 241 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.680 hook and ladder, some sort of fancy trick play. But when the player 242 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.640 is tackled or when the whistle is blown, maybe the offense picked up one 243 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.240 yard. In fact, maybe sometimes the offense went backwards. But man, 244 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.759 it really looked like they were trying. Man, they really put on a 245 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:45.640 performance for us. Wow, that looks really impressive. But they never advanced 246 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:49.200 the football. And that's the game, my friends in DC. The game 247 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:55.480 is never for the Republicans, not all of them. And I hope that 248 00:21:55.519 --> 00:22:00.160 it doesn't include I hope that Mike Johnson is not in this group. Matt 249 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.440 Gates is not in this group. Kevin McCarthy, I would say, is 250 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:08.160 in this group. They never want to advance the football. McCarthy doesn't want 251 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.240 to advance the football. He wants the power, he wants the position. 252 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:17.119 He will talk a good game, he'll put in some plays on offense that 253 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.279 really look like, man, you really look like you were trying to do 254 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:27.079 something huge there, but nothing ever happens. Thirty three trillion dollars in debt 255 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:34.559 becomes thirty four trillion dollars in debt, an open border becomes an open border 256 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:45.920 that terrorists are presumably ostensibly reportedly crossing. Right, it doesn't get any better. 257 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:53.720 There's a lot of motion, a lot of promises and platitudes when the 258 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:59.039 emails go out to fundraise. When it's time to get people to the polls, 259 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.640 oh, they're all about it. But when it comes time to actually 260 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:08.599 put in the work and do what is necessary to advance that metaphorical football crickets 261 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:18.160 silence, nothing, capitulation, weakness, no principle. That is what happens, 262 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.319 and that is the game that we have been subjected to. Now there's 263 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:27.200 other games going on going on as well. One of those other games going 264 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:33.640 on is control for the Republican Party, which I've gone through extensively on this 265 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:38.240 program. There's conservatives, there's country clubbers, there's the establishment Republicans. That's 266 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:42.039 one group to me, the establishment Republicans, the country Clubbers, those are 267 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:47.559 the ones that are in that have maintained control of the party for a long 268 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:52.119 time. Then there are the conservatives, the people who really want and believe 269 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:57.160 and think that their representatives should actually be doing things that the constitution says they 270 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:03.839 should be doing, and candidly not anything more. Do what the constitution says, 271 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.799 restore a limited government, get this government headed back in the direction it 272 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:12.240 needs to go. That's what we think, that's what we expect. And 273 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.839 that's why, by the way, they come up with what I call the 274 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:19.039 prevent offense because they want you to think it. They want the headlines to 275 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:22.799 make it look like they're doing the things that you expect them to do, 276 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:27.640 but they never actually get them done. All they ever actually get done is 277 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.920 raising some money, getting elected, serving there for a lifetime, ignoring a 278 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:41.279 lot of responsibilities until they're forced to by their constituents. The political pressures get 279 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.000 so high, like for this Biden inquiry, for example, a lot of 280 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.119 these guys don't want to do that. A lot of these guys absolutely do 281 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.880 not want to do that. That's not fun, and that puts them in 282 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:57.839 at odds with the media, that gets them called names, that subjects them 283 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:03.640 to having their lives gone through with the fine toothed clone to see if they've 284 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:08.839 done anything that they're ever embarrassed forget illegalities are something they should be impeace for. 285 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:14.000 I'm just saying something to embarrass them. They don't want that, and 286 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.720 we have to understand that that's human nature. Don't make me do the hard 287 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:22.000 stuff, right, don't make it difficult on me. Just let me go 288 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:27.160 to Washington, cast some votes, go and speak where they invite me to 289 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:32.920 speak, get praised as being a senator, a congressman, whatever. I 290 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.480 don't want to do the hard work. But folks, this is exactly why 291 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:40.759 we're in the mess we're in today. And so the big money Republicans, 292 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:48.440 the establishment Republicans, the Republicans who are embarrassed by conservative principles and values, 293 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:56.160 the Republicans who really just want to see the rate of government growth slowed down 294 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:57.640 from where it is. They don't really want to see it go back to 295 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:03.640 where it should be. Those folks are the ones that are making the decisions 296 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.640 in DC. Those folks are the ones who gave us a speaker, Kevin 297 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:15.480 McCarthy. Those are the ones that don't stand up to the Democrats when the 298 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.119 Democrats are in power or when the Democrats aren't in power. These are the 299 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:23.480 ones that go running running for the hills. Anytime the pressure gets tight, 300 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:30.160 anytime the heat in the kitchen gets too hot to bear, they go running 301 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:36.200 and whining, and they're nowhere to be seen. And so that is the 302 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:41.720 other battle that's happening in our nation's capital, in the House of Representatives. 303 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:47.960 Folks, we won on this one. If you're a limited government constitutionalists, 304 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:57.119 conservative libertarian type, you one because Mike Johnson is much closer to what you 305 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:04.519 believe than Kevin McCarthy is. We've won this. But again, we shouldn't 306 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:11.839 overly get overly excited here, because it's just like we've won the coin toss. 307 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.960 Now we get the football. Now we have to see what we're gonna 308 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.640 do with it. All that other stuff matters on setting the stage, on 309 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:30.359 putting people in the right positions. But now, what are we going to 310 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:37.880 do now that we have a leader who at least says that he agrees with 311 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:44.839 the concepts of constitutional conservatism. I'm not implying he doesn't. I'm saying now 312 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.480 we will find out. Now he's gonna have to I mean, look, 313 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.920 he's gonna have to negotiate at times, and sometimes it's gonna have to be 314 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:56.559 a little bit you know, We're gonna have to accept that. But in 315 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:02.079 general, is he going to be pushing for conservative principles or is he going 316 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:07.319 to capitulate and run and cower and not actually try to do his part in 317 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.759 turning this nation around. I think he will do the right things. Only 318 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.839 time will tell we've won this particular battle, but it is truly just the 319 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.960 very beginning. These battles will never end. Buckle up, accept it, 320 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.119 get ready for that. Embrace it. What the special forces say, embrace 321 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.960 the suck. If you don't like the fight, just embrace the fact that 322 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.160 it's going to suck. I don't see it that way. I find it 323 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.799 a little fun sometimes. But the point is that we're at the beginning. 324 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:38.920 This is not going to get easier. It is only going to get harder, 325 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:42.119 my friends. It's only going to get harder because we have to understand 326 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:48.519 who we're ultimately fighting against, and that is a godless, rabid radical left. 327 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.680 Timeout is in order, my friends, sit tight back here in just 328 00:28:52.720 --> 00:29:11.759 a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So this is the lay of 329 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:18.200 the land in the reality of political consequences here in two thousand and twenty three, 330 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:21.519 right, this is what we've been going over. The lay of the 331 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:26.440 land. We've talked about the problems, we've talked about where we are in 332 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.079 the process, where we are in the fight. Now. Of course that 333 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:34.359 speaker Mike Johnson has won and become speaker, which by the way, wasn't 334 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.440 supposed to happen. Right again, Still, I think we need to take 335 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:44.240 a moment and I briefly mentioned this earlier, but I think we need to 336 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:52.720 really take a moment to thank Matt Gates. He's faced a ton of backlash 337 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.960 and criticism, and I guarantee, folks, what's been happening behind closed doors, 338 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:03.680 the phone calls, he's been getting, the pressure that's been mounting on 339 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.480 him because he's the one that caused this, Right, that's what they say. 340 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.079 No, you know who caused this. The people who caused this are 341 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.920 the people who led us to thirty four trillion dollars in federal debt. The 342 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:22.640 people who cause this are the ones who allowed this nation to have a porous 343 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:27.880 and open border. The ones who caused this are the ones that gradually, 344 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.599 over time, step by step, inch by inch, have seeded ground to 345 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.759 the radical leftists. The ones who caused this are the ones who did not 346 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:44.839 stand and defend the nonsense that Trump was accused of when he was President of 347 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.839 the United States when he was a candidate. The ones who caused this are 348 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.079 the ones that stood by and did nothing or very little, or only paid 349 00:30:52.200 --> 00:31:00.759 lip service to what we wanted to hear. The President of the United States 350 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:07.599 and others have been targeted by a weaponized Department of Justice. Don't blame that 351 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:12.240 on Matt Gates. And I understand again that we didn't have all of the 352 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:17.200 levers of power and government, so we couldn't necessarily stop it. But I 353 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:25.000 guarantee, my friends, we could have done more. Gates. Gates was 354 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.720 a one man show in opposing McCarthy for a while, and now look at 355 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.200 what's happened. And you may not like Gates. I don't know. You 356 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:34.640 may have a problem personally with Gates. I can't speak to any of that. 357 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.079 I'm just looking at outcomes here and I'm saying he needs to be commended 358 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.119 for what he did. It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. Republicans 359 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:47.880 weren't going to be able to find a leader. What's going to happen? 360 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.680 How are we going to function as a government. The government's going to shut 361 00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.680 down, and it's going to be blamed on Republicans because they won't have a 362 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.200 speaker. Blah blah blah. None of that happened. None of that happened. 363 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:02.640 Remember that the next time that there is fear mongering when Republicans are fighting 364 00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:08.240 within the party and conserv Look, this is all designed to stop the conservative 365 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:13.640 movement, or dare I say even forget about the conservative movement. How about 366 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.319 we just say the will of the American people. This is about stopping that 367 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:27.400 from becoming from having a political voice in this nation. The establishment Republican Party, 368 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:32.000 while not as bad as the radical left, they still do not want 369 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:37.119 to give a voice to those who oppose what they're doing. I mean, 370 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.240 this is kind of common sense, right. They don't want to empower those 371 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:44.359 folks. They don't want to empower that. And when they see it come 372 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:50.480 through someone like Matt Gates, hopefully with someone like Speaker Mike Johnson, other 373 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.480 members of Congress, Jim Jordan, or whoever else, they get nervous. 374 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.240 They get nervous. Now we've got enough pressure that has been exerted. Matt 375 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:06.440 Gates and others stood firmly enough. The Byron Donald's of the world. Kudos 376 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:10.440 to all these guys. They did the right thing. They were led by 377 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.480 Gates. Here we are. Gates needs to be commended for this. Gate 378 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:22.440 needs to be credited for where we are today. It's just the first step, 379 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:27.319 but it's an important first step. There's a crack in the armor, 380 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:32.200 my friends, a crack in the armor of the swamp of the establishment Republicans, 381 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.680 and they want they will throw every resource they have at preventing that crack 382 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:43.200 from getting larger. We have to exploit it. We have to push with 383 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.279 all of our might. We have to come together and push those individuals, 384 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:52.000 and I hope it includes Speaker Mike Johnson, get behind these folks and push, 385 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:59.000 help them expand upon that gap, that kink, that chink in the 386 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:04.720 armor of the deep state, of the bureaucratic state, of the Republican establishment. 387 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.880 It's good that we've made this first step, but we've got many, 388 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:15.039 many more steps to take. And you know what, sometimes there's going to 389 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:20.119 be people that are pushing alongside of us that we may have future disagreements with. 390 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.760 I don't care about any of that right now. What matters. What 391 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.440 matters is that I think eighty percent of this country, if they can have 392 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:32.679 things framed properly and explained properly and not screamed at or whatever else. I 393 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:37.199 think a time, I think eighty percent of the country could get behind what's 394 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:40.920 going on now. I don't think that ultimately they will because of politics and 395 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:46.559 the emotional aspect of you know, being a Democrat or whatever however they identify 396 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:51.119 and so forth, and the demonization of Trump and other Republicans and so forth. 397 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.880 That's why they go to this. I got a list, by the 398 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.079 way, on the stack of stuff of some negative coverage that's happening here with 399 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:04.920 of course Kevin excuse mean, Mike Johnson. So anyhow, we've got a 400 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.599 band together and continue to push through. I think we can. I think 401 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:12.119 that this is the most This is one of the things to be the most 402 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.960 optimistic about. Got a ton of work left to do, But there's a 403 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:22.480 chink in the armor, man that can be exploited. My regular everyday people 404 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:28.679 coming together and pushing forward with a message that says enough to Congress, enough 405 00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:34.800 enough empty promises, enough debt, enough open borders, enough radical leftist politics, 406 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.840 enough of the weaponization of the Department of Justice. Enough We've had it. 407 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.440 We're done. We will not take it any longer, but I've got 408 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.119 to take a break. My friends, sit tight listening here to conservative not 409 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:53.719 bitter talk. I'm your host, Todd huff Back in a minute. Chinked 410 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:59.719 in the armor, my friends, that is what we have in the Republican 411 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:05.159 part in a good way, and the establishment wing of the Republican Party in 412 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:14.280 the swamp in maybe DC. In total, I think that we have an 413 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:23.000 opportunity here to power our way through that proverbial chink in the armor. It's 414 00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:28.960 a place of weakness. It has been exploited thanks to Matt Gates, thanks 415 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:34.679 to the Republicans that held firm over these past three weeks in spite of incessant 416 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:43.199 out of control just end of the world dire predictions by people who said that 417 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.239 the United States of America will cease to be. I mean, we're not 418 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:51.880 going to be able to function without House of Representatives for a couple of weeks. 419 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.440 It's almost as though they don't know. They go on recess and so 420 00:36:54.480 --> 00:37:00.400 forth anyway. So we have to expel with that. And I think a 421 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:07.199 lot of people want to exploit that we're tired of this, We're tired of 422 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:10.840 what we've been subjected to. There's lots of reasons to be encouraged here to 423 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:15.360 step in the right direction. Of course, the left has gotten they've lost 424 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:22.280 their minds on this, on their attacks on now Speaker Mike Johnson again calling 425 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:27.199 him an anti gay representative because he's against the gay marriage. That makes you 426 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:32.159 apparently anti gay. They say he's basically an insurrectionist who tried to overthrow the 427 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.559 twenty twenty election. I saw someone on Twitter on Wednesday, I believe it 428 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:44.199 was, who said that since no one who is engaged in insurrection can hold 429 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.360 a position like Speaker of the House, is the Speaker of the House chair 430 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:52.679 still vacant? Has it been vacated? Because we can't, of course, 431 00:37:52.719 --> 00:38:00.639 have people who are insurrectionists with these hold these positions of powers forth. It's 432 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:05.079 pure sophistry. It's nonsense, it's absurd, it's ridiculous. Trump says, 433 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.760 by the way, Johnson's going to be a great sweeper a speaker. I 434 00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:14.000 was reading Swamp as I said that he's gonna be a great sweeper speaker. 435 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:17.960 Leftist and the swamp, by the way, are absolutely panicked over this. 436 00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:23.880 They don't want to deal They don't want to deal with what the American people 437 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:28.440 have on their agenda, and I think I think, my friends, that 438 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.440 can be pushed through a speaker Mike Johnson. I'm cautiously optimistic. Sit tight, 439 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.039 though my friend's got to take a break back to wrap up here in 440 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:45.559 just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I was just reading this 441 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:46.960 is in the stack of stuff if you want to see it at Todd Hufshow 442 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:52.920 dot com. But I was just reading Representative Gary or Jerry Connolly, Democrat 443 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.920 from Virginia. He says this, Mike Johnson isn't a household name. People 444 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:01.239 are googling him just to find out who he is. But let me warn 445 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.519 you right now, he's as dangerous as anyone in the speaker's chair. I 446 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.360 would agree with that. I would agree with that if you're coming from the 447 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:17.559 position of defending radical leftist ideology, or if you're someone who is defending the 448 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.800 swamp in Washington, DC. So, mister Connelly, thank you for letting 449 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:28.000 us know who you are is though we didn't already anyhow. So, folks, 450 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:32.239 this is Friday. If you want to check out miss episodes you might 451 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.119 have missed, go to Toddhshow dot com slash listen check those out. I 452 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.320 know it's a sad time. 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